Beyti Betak. My home is your home.

Throughout history, hospitality has ranged from sharing a date and tea to offering one’s home for shelter. A practice that opens doors for those not yet known, through which often invisible boundaries between people are diminished. Featuring significant works of modern and contemporary architecture from Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, Beyti Beytak explores spaces of hospitality at multiple scales across the past 85 years.
Hospitality in architecture is an extension of civic and ethical values. Starting from the oasis and the city house, the exhibition expands how built and natural environments prompt us to participate in our own becoming; how hospitality is an essential part of who we can be. Hospitality is understood as a convening of diverse contexts: the museum and the mosque, the garden, the community centre and public spaces.